| Sufferings..................11 | |
| come to earth and go through all the sufferings completely alone, at certain times barring all divine | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| might desire and instant release from all His sufferings, if He accepted Lucifer and gave up His | 22 SALVATION |
| taunted Him in the worst moments of His sufferings: Where is your God of love and justice | 22 SALVATION |
| of salvation. Then bring yourself to imagine His sufferings as something real, not some imaginary legend, as | 22 SALVATION |
| some imaginary legend, as real as your own sufferings, only much worse. Then it will be so | 22 SALVATION |
| His life on earth, my friends, about His sufferings and about His death. But if you read | 22 SALVATION |
| learn the responsibility that arises from being spared sufferings that other peoples may have. Besides, this angle | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| from this perspective. All their disturbances, disharmonies, and sufferings can finally be brought down to the struggle | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| your spiritual development, your character, your fulfillment, your sufferings, your state of happiness or unhappiness, the reactions | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| fully put to use right where the greatest sufferings and conflicts exist. The full scope of its | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| be more directly concerned with the hurts and sufferings you have endured in your early life and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Suffers.....................33 | |
| will cost it its position, so that it suffers, and only this suffering will bring it nearer | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| you a single piece of advice. Your spirit suffers when you act against its laws. And you | 31 SHAME |
| even aware of them any more and just suffers vaguely in a continuous, gnawing pain. How sad | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| does not like to be separate. A child suffers whenever it feels different from other children. For | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| parents do not love each other, the child suffers even more. So the first conflict arises from | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| of each parent exclusively; on the other, it suffers if the parents do not love each other | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| gained over a brother or sister who thereby suffers a disadvantage ultimately demands a much higher price | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| important not because the parent you have rejected suffers from it, but mostly because you suffer from | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| know of. For instance, a person I know suffers from hay fever, but the moment he goes | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| needs human warmth and affection, and without these suffers from isolation. In not admitting the suffering, this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| life experience. Needless to say, such a soul suffers a damage that the real self will rebel | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| may call it healthy self-assertion. This healthy aspect suffers the same split as the concept of self-acceptance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| us briefly recapitulate. To begin with, the child suffers from imperfections in the parents' love and affection | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| in the parents' love and affection. It also suffers from not being fully accepted in its own | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| It seems to me that our Western culture suffers from holding onto the intellect and to the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of your fear that the fate the other suffers may come to you. Or you may feel | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| bad, I am not the only one who suffers, therefore I am glad that others suffer too | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| what is warranted in reality. Therefore the soul suffers more from an impression than it needs to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| limited, subjective evaluation is inevitable if the soul suffers too much. The suffering makes a wider and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| other holds back. Needless to say, the soul suffers from tension, a useless and destructive waste of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| and the mind may develop, but the spirit suffers when the emotional level is not infiltrated with | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| activity will enhance the other. Creative endeavor never suffers by the full experience of the life force | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in this respect, and their entire value system suffers from unrealistic reflexes. To be more specific, if | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| materially dependent. Her resourcefulness as a human being suffers to the degree that she defeats and discourages | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| constructive, alive, and blissful. Behind the wall one suffers separation from the best of life, which includes | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| spirit, is to deny life. When a child suffers such denial, its psyche receives a shock from | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is what must be investigated in everyone who suffers from unhappiness. Where is the violation? Where do | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| life, dying will no longer be. Anyone who suffers from the fear of death should try to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| open the locked gate. For example, a person suffers from loneliness and lovelessness. It may have taken | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| is in chaos does not know this and suffers. Let us review. Conscious processes can swing the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the word used by Jesus. The word evil suffers a similar fate. Religion has thrown it at | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| before, the one furthers the other. Your earth suffers deeply from human beings who have not yet | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| self that perpetrates suffering and the victim who suffers is so great that the perpetrator is deluded | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Suffocate...................3 | |
| them, because through their bondage to matter they suffocate the living spirit. I would like to mention | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| these feelings. Without understanding them, they would completely suffocate you, depress you more than necessary, and you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| smaller world in which you sometimes appear to suffocate. Your real being is without any shades of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Suggestion..................26 | |
| have forgotten. Now let me make a new suggestion which should work out very well, if you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| our task. I also wish to make a suggestion to all my friends in the three groups | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| mind to the others' viewpoint. This is my suggestion for opening the new season after vacation. Of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| will and should take this only as a suggestion, no more. After the joint discussion, you may | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| would like to remind you of my recent suggestion that when you have any friction, try to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wanted to ask about the effects of post-hypnotic suggestion. Is that something that lingers? ANSWER: No, it | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| linger. Do not forget, it is nothing but suggestion. A suggestion that is followed without being part | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| not forget, it is nothing but suggestion. A suggestion that is followed without being part of the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| methods, systems, that operate by the power of suggestion; many metaphysical movements do just that. It has | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| more desirable state that is otherwise produced by suggestion. But here, too, there are exceptions of course | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| exceptions of course. There are cases where post-hypnotic suggestion can be constructive and fruitful. QUESTION: What determines | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| and thereby avoid the pitfalls of self-deception and suggestion. Prayer, if rightly understood and used, operates in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| attitude of discovering your disproportionate hurt at any suggestion of certain negative trends, and your disproportionate fear | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| did not want an undesirable experience. The mere suggestion that there might be an unconscious contrary striving | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Let us finish this lecture with the following suggestion for meditation. Let us combine control through the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| may have more or less value, but my suggestion to the friends who work with me is | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| part of the process. I also have a suggestion for all those not yet at the point | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| forth unpurified soul stuff. It is therefore my suggestion that whenever you find yourself in a joyful | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| is even more significant is that when, upon suggestion, you do formulate the creative thought pattern, you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| about any conceivable incident. With this message and suggestion I bless you all with deep love -- | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you with a great blessing and with the suggestion that you become more observant of your thought | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| go with and not stem against. A further suggestion has to do with the familiar. You feel | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| the force and say to you, as a suggestion, learn to say the positive commitment you have | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| much greater than the original anxiety. So my suggestion is: when you wish to rush, hold still | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| version of it. In this initial struggle, my suggestion is to make yourself available to all the | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| are meant to flow. I have one more suggestion before terminating this first lecture of the new | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Suggests....................6 | |
| its setting and given a distorted meaning. It suggests a negative fear as though this is the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have a much deeper meaning than their surface suggests. If you grasp this deeper meaning you will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| forcefully cutting out something. Even the word slayer suggests this deep and unfortunate misunderstanding. A wrong process | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is necessary to grow out of it. Slaying suggests compulsion, haste, moralizing -- so that cannot be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of health that the pathwork of this lecture suggests. What this means is impossible to visualize. Unfortunately | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| to glimpse an occasional shaft of light that suggests a more profound comprehension of your inner disturbances | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |